Sanxingdui is an ancient city, an ancient country and an ancient Shu cultural site with the largest scale, the longest duration and the richest cultural connotation discovered so far in southwest China. Among them, the unearthed cultural relics are precious human cultural heritage, and among the cultural relics in China, they are one of the most historical, scientific, cultural, artistic and ornamental cultural relics.
Among these ancient Shu treasures, there are bronze giants with a height of 2.62 meters, bronze masks with a width of 1.38 meters and bronze sacred trees with a height of 3.95 meters, all of which are unique. The gold ware represented by the golden staff, the jade and stone tools represented by the decorative edge Zhang are also rare treasures that have never been seen before.
Historical value:
Because the discovery of Sanxingdui site is very different from the long-term understanding of Bashu culture in historians, and in some places it is even completely different. Historians have always believed that compared with the Central Plains, the ancient Bashu area is a relatively closed place with little or no connection with the Central Plains civilization.
Sanxingdui Site proves that it should be an important cultural center in China before and after the Xia and Shang Dynasties, or even earlier, and it has certain connection with the culture of the Central Plains. Verified the authenticity of ancient Shu records in ancient literature.
Historians used to think that the birthplace of the Chinese nation was the Yellow River Basin, and later it gradually spread to all of China. The discovery of Sanxingdui pushed the history of ancient Shu to 5000 years ago, which proved that the Yangtze River basin is the birthplace of the Chinese nation as well as the Yellow River basin, and that there are ancient civilizations in the Yangtze River basin that are no less than the Yellow River basin.